Former Muslim: ‘Palestinianism’ Is a ‘Catch-All Container’ for Resentment Movements By Catherine Salgado

PJ Media : Why is it that different leftist or terrorist groups around the world continually align themselves with the so-called Palestinians, even if many of their beliefs conflict? A former Muslim and bestselling author has an answer.

Dan Burmawi, having seen the uglier realities of Islam up close, isn’t afraid to say what many Westerners are squeamish about admitting. “Palestinianism is a dumping ground,” he explained on X on July 2. “A catch-all container for every resentful ideology, every broken theory, every radical cause. Marxists, postcolonialists, jihadists, queer activists, anarchists, environmentalists, anti-capitalists, and antisemites, they all pour their agendas into it.”

This is true whether the ideologies actually fully align or not. Yes, “queers for Palestine” are ridiculous for not knowing that homosexuals can be executed in Gaza. Marxists are political utopians and Palestinian terrorists are religious zealots. But even if the ideologies do not completely match up, Bumawi argued, the highly fictionalized cause of jihadis in Gaza is “the perfect host, just vague enough to absorb anything, just angry enough to justify everything.”

He explained further. “Muslims use it to legitimize jihad and martyrdom. Marxists use it to revive class warfare under the guise of anti-Zionism. Postcolonial theorists use it to attack the West.”

Bumawi continued, “Intersectional activists use it to link Palestine to trans rights and racial justice in a grotesque logic of shared victimhood. Academics use it to inject critical theory into international politics. Antisemites use it to camouflage their hatred as humanitarianism. Palestinianism is where incompatible ideologies suddenly find unity.”

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